snakes and ladders

Ahh shame, this week's sad story is ...... as told by a vacating tenant - a window cleaner knocked on the door and asked if he could borrow a ladder (!) As they had been looking for someone to clean their windows the lady tenant swiftly lent him one, had her windows cleaned and was charged £10. Off he went and neither the window cleaner or the ladder were ever seen again! So not only did the tenant have to pay over the odds for window cleaning she also had to buy a new ladder for the landlord. Oh well, we all have off days I guess. Me, I'd have been chasing him all the way down the road, what a cheek, a window cleaner without a ladder - hmm bit suspicious, hope she checked her valuables afterwards.

Is that and elephant down your trousers or........

Just when I thought I'd seen everything! Tenants leave some odd things behind when they move out. Last week I checked out a nice young couple who were all loved up - you know, holding hands, making gooey noises and all that. I just ignored them (and reached for the bucket, oh cynical me!) and carried on with my inspection. Opening a chest of drawers in the bedroom I found a posing pouch in the shape of an elephant (you know, head, trunk.... don't need to paint you a picture now do I?). I had a little chuckle and thought I'd save it until the end of the check out to tell the tenants.

I carried on into the next room, the tenants went into the bedroom and I heard loud giggling - ah they must have found their lost underwear I thought. Suddenly there was the strange sound of an elephant trumpeting - posing pouch with sound effects obviously! I'm afraid I lost the plot then and had hysterics, along with the tenants. Pat's top tip for tenants - great method of trying to distract the inventory clerk. (Didn't work though, they still had to pick up the bill for cleaning and damages....)